Description
Hybrid Role Overview
This is a hybrid role for someone who can span the worlds between the UX and the technical aspect of custom application development.
Design Responsibilities
- Work with customers, stakeholders, Product owners, technical team to gather requirements, understand opportunities and conduct research
- Make UI recommendations based on good design principles
- Develop mock-ups, propose solutions to communicate design concepts clearly and effectively, review proposals with customers and rapidly iterate
- Create clickable prototypes (Figma or Adobe XD), conduct usability testing, gather feedback and refine designs.
- Build detailed wireframes, create technical work packages containing designs and technical documentation for quotation by vendors or handover to internal developers
Technical Responsibilities
- Propose architectural technical solutions, e.g. how data could flow between various systems, integration with databases, cloud systems etc.
- Create high level architectural diagrams, define integrations, database schemas, etc.
- Convert business requirements into technical specifications
- Create / maintain project documentation including design specifications, user flows and implementation guides.
- Technology selection / trade off decision making
- Review technical quotes from vendors; negotiate costs and timelines
- Review project plans; budgets & timelines
- Build test plan and conduct application testing in partnership with Testers; Developers & SQAs
Overall Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science; Engineering; Information Systems or a related field; Master’s degree preferred.
- A portfolio showcasing your wireframing and UX design work.
- Must have strong initiative; ability to self-manage; creative and passionate about digital product development
- Proven track record in design of custom applications
- Experience defining and creating comprehensive work packages that outline project scope; deliverables; timelines; resource allocation
- Experience working with software development teams managing vendor relationships.
- Excellent communication stakeholder management skills
- Available for occasional international travel.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in Agile methodologies SDLC DevOps practices.
- Knowledge of data engineering Databricks Python
- Knowledge of HTML CSS JavaScript.
- Expertise in digital application architecture cloud platforms (AWS Azure)
- Track record of project Management
- Familiarity with supply chain digital tools ERP systems (SAP Oracle etc.)